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You Are NOT Your Job!
This article is not about parenting or anything related to parenting, per se. I suppose I’m breaking the rules of the website but I had a thought I’ve been chewing around lately and wanted to record for posterity. And it is MY website so I’ll say what I want to say. LOL. This is my sad little version of creative freedom… The old trope goes: “Study hard, kids, so you don’t grow up to be a bus driver!” … (The other old trope goes: “Don’t live in a van down by the river!” Although living in a van is considered cool now.) Well, I worked at a bus yard five…
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“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” Helen Keller
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“My mother was the single most important influence in my life. I saw her struggles as a single mom. She taught me the values of hard work and responsibility, but also of compassion and empathy – being able to look at the world through somebody else’s eye and stand in their shoes.” -Barack Obama